Use artist quality watercolor paper for good results when you paint.
Painting with watercolor can be a fun hobby. Watercolor artists use many techniques in their paintings. One technique to practice is called wet-in-wet because one color of wet paint is allowed to blend into another area of wet paint. This demonstration uses the wet-in-wet method to paint a picture of a red ball. While red is the predominant color of the ball, green paint is used to create the shadow side.
Instructions
1. Tape a 6- by 6-inch piece of watercolor paper to a board. With a pencil, draw a circle three inches in diameter in the center of the paper. You can draw the circle freehand or place a canning jar lid on the paper and trace around the edge of it. The right side of the circle will be the shadow side of the ball.
2. Open a tube of red watercolor paint and squeeze an amount about the size of a small fingertip into a paint well on a watercolor palette. Replace the lid and open a tube of green paint. Squeeze out a similar amount of dark green paint into another well on the palette and replace the lid on the paint tube.
3. Spritz the top of the red and green paints with a little water. Use a one-inch flat watercolor brush to mix the water into the red paint. Clean the brush in water and stir the green paint. Add water, as necessary, so that the paints are creamy in texture. Clean the brush again.
4. Dip the watercolor brush into a container of clean water. With the wet brush, moisten the inside of the circle you drew on the paper, except leave a few small dry spots on the left side. The dry spots will allow the white paper to show in the completed painting and will look like a sparkle on the ball.
5. Dip the brush into the green paint while the paper is still wet and your brush bristles are still moist. Immediately, stroke the brush along the inside edge of the right half of the circle. The green paint will run into the wet area of the circle.
6. Clean your brush quickly in water and squeeze out excess moisture from the bristles. Dip your brush into the red paint and stroke the brush onto the left half of the circle, avoiding the dry spots. The red paint will flow across the ball shape towards the edges and into the green paint. You can manipulate the flow of the paint with your brush a little, but for the most part let the paints blend freely.
7. Let the paint dry completely. Your painting of a ball is done. Practice this using another color combination, such as red and blue.
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